Opinions and voices for change
Navigate the blogs from our experts, water, sanitation and hygiene sector colleagues and guests. Narrow down your search by using the filters.
Where science meets policy, and practice. Read more...
Joint efforts at various levels are being made in Bangladesh to improve WASH in health care facilities. Read more...
The question is not if, but how they should be involved. Read more...
Hygiene is both the first and the last defence against diseases due to climate change. Read more...
Tanzania's recent toilet campaign gets high-level politicians on board. Why? Read more...
During a Watershed field trip, a community leader experiences a lightbulb moment. Read more...
The Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) is working with community and health care facility (HCF) leaders to address the systemic issues around WASH in South Africa. Read more...
Enormous progress has been made in reducing open defecation in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, the quality of sanitation facilities remains a big challenge and a serious health concern. Read more...
The sanitation and hygiene challenge in Ethiopia is an important task, and daunting in scale. Read more...
IRC's learning platform, the WASH Systems Academ y, is shortlisted as one of the ten finalists for the Spindle award "Best Innovation for Development". Read more...
What could the proceeds of one golden toilet achieve for reaching Sustainable Development Goal 6.2? Read more...
The award has taken me back to my experiences with WASH as an eleven-year-old girl. Read more...
Water and sanitation comprise an increasingly important focus for global health and development philanthropy, but the approach has often been piecemeal, resulting in broken pipes and pumps, disillusioned donors, and suffering beneficiaries. Read more...
Finding ways to build and finance strong WASH systems, including everyone along the way. Read more...
Two new UN reports show where we are and where it is we want to get to; now it's time to step up national leadership. Read more...
A meeting organised by Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) and IRC Uganda, to inform the parliamentarians about the Watershed empowering citizens programme, discuss key issues in WASH and IWRM, and make recommendations on how the issues can be addressed effectively. Read more...
Just like adolescent girls, incarcerated women - the age cohort with the highest risk of perimenopausal women - need support with menstrual hygiene management (MHM) too. Read more...
The era of eyes on, hands off are gone! Responsibility for rural water and sanitation shifts from local government to new national agency. Read more...
How a blending of service delivery models and finance within a district may hold the solution to financing safe water supplies for everyone. Read more...
Problem tree analysis is a good tool to plan, assess and adapt WASH programmes. Lessons from Watershed India. Read more...